7 March 2016

Raymond Tomlinson, the inventor of modern email and a technological leader, has died, his employer said Sunday.

Tomlinson died Saturday, the Raytheon Co. said; the details were not immediately available.

Email
existed in a limited capacity before Tomlinson in that electronic
messages could be shared amid multiple people within a limited
framework. But until his invention in 1971 of the first network
person-to-person email, there was no way to send something to a specific
person at a specific address.